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Retirement. In late September 1996, Messick retired from acting after he suffered a stroke at a recording session at Hanna-Barbera. On October 12, 1996, he had a "retirement party" at his favorite Chinese restaurant ( Joseph Barbera personally sent a limo to Messick and his wife, and the two were chauffeured).
Don Messick is a legendary voice actor who spent his entire adult-hood in entertainment. He started out wanting to be a ventriloquist. Thankfully for cartoon lovers that career didn't pan out. How do you think his potential career would've stacked up against Edgar Bergen and later, Paul Winchell?
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- October 24, 1997
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Don Messick is a legendary voice actor who spent his entire adult-hood in entertainment. He started out wanting to be a ventriloquist. Thankfully for cartoon lovers that career didn't pan out. How do you think his potential career would've stacked up against Edgar Bergen and later, Paul Winchell?
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Don Messick once told CTFT that he began his career as a performer at age thirteen, when he developed his own act as a ventriloquist in rural Maryland.* Nationality American
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Donald Earl "Don" Messick was an American voice actor, best known for his work in Hanna-Barbera cartoons, where he voiced numerous characters, such as Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show, Astro in The Jetsons, the titular character of the Scooby-Doo franchise, Papa Smurf in The Smurfs, Dr. Benton Quest and Bandit in Jonny Quest ...
Oct 24, 1997 · One of the most prolific and versatile voice actors of the 20th century, Don Messick voiced such iconic childhood favorites as Scooby-Doo, Boo Boo, Astro, Papa Smurf and dozens of other roles for Hanna-Barbera's stable of animated television programs, as well as other companies. He began his...